On 2015-09-13 21:05, Andreas Meyer wrote:
Hello!
Christian Kivalo ml+dovecot@valo.at schrieb am 13.09.15 um 19:51:38 Uhr:
Sep 13 11:55:49 imap(a.meyer@nimmini.de): Error: user a.meyer@nimmini.de: Initialization failed: Namespace '': Home directory not set for user. Can't expand ~/ for mail root dir in: ~/ Sep 13 11:55:49 imap(a.meyer@nimmini.de): Error: Invalid user settings. Refer to server log for more information.
i see an error here "Error: Invalid user settings" relating to the users mail_location direcory.
Is "mail_location" (and not so important "mail_home") defined?
In dovecot.conf mail_location = maildir:~/ is set. This works with the system-users defined in the passwd file.
I think the query-string für MySQL would overwrite this mail_location, right? But how do I define it in the query?
yes thats how it should work but your query (looking at the query result from your first email) overwrites the mail_location with "/var/spool/vhosts/nimmini.de/" without a username.
With my setup "mail" and "home" is returned from the userdb query from mysql
home: /srv/mail/%u mail: /srv/mail/%u/Maildir
The query-strings for virtual users look like this:
password_query = SELECT username AS username, password FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u' AND active = 1 user_query = SELECT maildir, uid, gid, concat('*:storage=', quota) AS quota_rule, concat('Trash:storage=+', quota_trash) AS quota_rule2 FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u'
what about user_query = SELECT CONCAT(maildir, SUBSTRING_INDEX(username,'@',+1)) as mail, uid, gid, concat('*:storage=', quota) AS quota_rule, concat('Trash:storage=+', quota_trash) AS quota_rule2 FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u'
The SUBSTRING_INDEX returns everything left of the '@' from field username, that should give you something like
+--------------------------------------+------+------+-------------------+--------------------+
| mail | uid | gid | quota_rule
| quota_rule2 |
+--------------------------------------+------+------+-------------------+--------------------+
| /var/spool/vhosts/nimmini.de/a.meyer | 5000 | 5000 | *:storage=5242880
| Trash:storage=+100 |
+--------------------------------------+------+------+-------------------+--------------------+
which hopefully is the path to your maildir.
There is no mail_loation defined. I thought if maildir is queried, the %u would expand to the mail_location of the user. Where the users only with the local part of the address exist in the filesystem.
I don't know a setting called "maildir" dovecot expects a field "mail" to be returned by your sql query or uses the default one (set in 10-mail.conf).
maybe even this works, but it too will only return the path without the username user_query = SELECT maildir AS mail, uid, gid, concat('*:storage=', quota) AS quota_rule, concat('Trash:storage=+', quota_trash) AS quota_rule2 FROM mailbox WHERE username = '%u'
%u is the user@domain username %n is the username without the @domain part
/var/spool/vhosts/nimmini.de/a.meyer
whereas /var/spool/vhosts is a symlink to /home/vhosts.
This setup worked fine sometime ago and I wanted to reactivate MySQL for dovecot. Now the query doesn't work anymore, the location seems to be invalid.
location=maildir:~/ instead of /var/spool/vhosts/nimmini.de/%u.
Sep 13 11:55:49 imap(a.meyer@nimmini.de): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:~/
on one of my accounts this same line looks like this: imap(aaa@kivalo.at): Debug: Namespace inbox: type=private, prefix=, sep=/, inbox=yes, hidden=no, list=yes, subscriptions=yes location=maildir:/srv/mail/aaa@kivalo.at/Maildir:LAYOUT=fs
where location is the "mail_location" setting from 10-mail.conf and is overridden by the userdb from sql for every user.
it's probably enough to set the option mail_location in 10-mail.conf to an absolute path.
I cannot set the absolute path in mail_location, because I have systemusers and virtual users.
Don't know how to set mail_location in the query-string for MySQL, if the expandation of %u is not enough. %u would expand to the full address a.meyer@nimmini.de whereas the location looks like /var/spool/vhosts/nimmini.de/a.meyer
Don't know what to do.
Regards
Andreas
- christian